Pim Fortuyn List

The Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) was a right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands which was active from 2002 to 2008. It was founded by former university professor and political columnist Pim Fortuyn, who was expelled from the Livable Netherlands party for his controversial anti-immigration views. Fortuyn gained support in the opinion polls, as he opposed the elitism and bureaucracy of the Dutch coalition government, combined populism and nationalism with liberalism, supported women's rights and gay rights against the "backward" Islamic culture, and opposed immigration. Fortuyn was assassinated nine days before the election, and the party took part in a coalition government from 2002 to 2003, with its internal power struggles leading to the coalition's breakup. The party went into decline without Fortuyn, and it dissolved in 2008.